[Rd] read.spss, R 1.3.0, win2k

[Uwe Ligges]

Thomas Lumley wrote:
>
> read.spss() is giving "Rgui.exe has generated errors and will be
> closed..." on all the files I have tried (the same happens with Rterm as
> well). This is R1.3.0 and the current `foreign',under Win2k.
>
> The problem doesn't happen under Linux on a different machine and
> didn't happen with an earlier version of R and foreign under NT4 on a
> different machine.
>
> As I updated to a new computer, new OS and new version of R at the same
> time I don't know which component is responsible. Has anyone used
> read.spss() with R 1.3.0 under Windows?


[R-1.3.0, foreign_0.4-4, WinNT 4.0]

A generated test file in SPSS 10, containing a  "matrix(c(2,3,3,5),
ncol=2)", can be read in:

  read.spss("c:/test.sav")

$VAR00001
[1] 2 3

$VAR00002
[1] 3 5



But trying to read a non existant file crashes R on my machine:

  read.spss("c:/nonexistant.abc")  # R crashes


Uwe Ligges
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